We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it and were afraid of doing so; but man carried it. Surely he is wrong-doing, ignorant.1
Footnotes
[1]
The Arabic word used is thamarwhich can be pronounced as thumror thumuraccording to the majority of reciters, and in all cases it also means ‘produce’.
[2]
In the end, Allah wants man to realize his real position in the world; if in that position he regarded the life of the world as mere fun and sport and adopted a wrong attitude carelessly, he would only be working for his own doom.